Senior Unix & Linux Platform Architect (Cloud & Automation)

Amgen SA; Northern (KY); Hybrid; USD 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Retirement and Savings Plan

Medical, dental and vision coverage

Life and disability insurance

Stock-based incentives

Discretionary bonus program

Flexible work models

Job summary

Amgen is seeking a Principal IS Unix Architect to lead enterprise Unix/Linux platforms across data centers, AWS, Azure, or GCP. You will own the architecture, standards, and lifecycle management, delivering resilient, secure systems and scalable infrastructure for business-critical applications.

You’ll mentor L4/L5 engineers, drive automation with Ansible, Python, Shell, and IaC, advance DevSecOps practices, and guide cross-functional teams through incidents and improvements.

Qualifications

• Doctorate degree and 2 years of relevant experience
• OR Master’s degree and 4 years relevant experience
• OR Bachelor’s degree and 6 years relevant experience
• OR Associate’s degree and 10 years relevant experience
• OR High school diploma / GED and 12 years relevant experience

Responsibilities

• Lead the end-to-end architecture, engineering, and lifecycle management of enterprise Unix and Linux platforms, from technical strategy and standards through deployment, operations, modernization, and retirement.
• Act as the technical owner for large-scale Unix and Linux initiatives, driving architecture decisions, platform standardization, scalability, availability, resilience, and long-term maintainability.
• Architect scalable Unix platforms across Amgen’s data centers, AWS, Azure, or GCP, integrating virtualization, supporting container orchestration, storage, networking, and enterprise management tooling.
• Define and institutionalize architectural standards, validation controls, and governance frameworks for operating-system builds, configuration baselines, patching, vulnerability remediation, privileged access, audit readiness, and regulatory compliance.
• Advise senior technical leadership, security teams, and other architects and business stakeholders to present architectural options and tradeoffs based on service requirements and platform capabilities. Influence and help the Unix service owner achieve measurable improvements in reliability, performance, observability and operational efficiency.
• Establish and enforce best practices in platform engineering, infrastructure as code, configuration management, and DevSecOps, driving the platform architecture roadmap to continue improving automated provisioning, CI/CD, backup and recovery, configuration-drift control, Agentic AI and cost optimization.
• Drive capacity planning, performance engineering, and technology modernization, using workload trends, benchmarking, root-cause analysis, and controlled testing to improve system efficiency and reduce technical debt.
• Provide technical leadership and mentorship to L4 and L5 engineers through architecture reviews, automation and script reviews, complex troubleshooting, operational readiness assessments, and technical guidance.
• Lead cross-functional collaboration across Unix engineering, cloud, storage, network, database, middleware, cybersecurity, application, and service management teams to deliver integrated infrastructure solutions.
• Stay current with advancements in Unix technologies, automation, cloud-native infrastructure, observability, security, and lead the evaluation and adoption of technologies and architecture changes to improve platform resilience and supportability.
• Provide major incident escalation leadership and complex problem resolution for Unix services, coordinating technical teams, restoring service, identifying root causes, and ensuring corrective actions prevent recurrence.

Skills

Unix architecture

Automation

AWS/Azure/GCP

Ansible

Python

CI/CD

Security controls

Education

Doctorate degree

Master’s degree

Bachelor’s degree

Associate’s degree

High school diploma / GED

Tools

AWS

Azure

GCP

Job description

Amgen is seeking a Principal IS Unix Architect to lead enterprise Unix/Linux platforms across data centers, AWS, Azure, or GCP. You will own the architecture, standards, and lifecycle management, delivering resilient, secure systems and scalable infrastructure for business-critical applications.

You’ll mentor L4/L5 engineers, drive automation with Ansible, Python, Shell, and IaC, advance DevSecOps practices, and guide cross-functional teams through incidents and improvements.